SLEEPING SICKNESS ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
2. Compulsory examination of person infected or suspected to be infected with sleeping sickness.
3. Compulsory treatment of persons infected with sleeping sickness.
SLEEPING SICKNESS AREAS.
4. Declaration of sleeping sickness area.
5. Persons resident in sleeping sickness area to furnish personal particulars.
6. Certificate of particulars furnished.
8. Administrative orders for the suppression or prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness.
10. Control of woodcutting in sleeping sickness area.
11. Control of fishing in sleeping sickness area.
INFECTED AREAS.
12. Declaration of infected areas.
13. Passes for residents within infected area.
14. Residents not to leave infected area without medical sanction.
15. Medical examination of residents desiring to leave infected area.
16. Residents not to reenter infected area without medical sanction.
17. Medical examination of residents desiring to reenter infected area.
18. Nonresidents not to enter infected area without pass.
19. Medical examination of nonresidents prior to issue of pass to enter infected area.
20. Applicant for pass to enter infected area to furnish information.
21. Pass to enter infected area to be valid only for period and purpose sanctioned.
22. New pass required to extend period or alter purpose allowed by former pass.
24. Nonresidents not to leave infected area without medical sanction.
25. Medical examination of nonresidents desiring to leave infected area.
RESTRICTED AREAS.
26. Declaration of restricted area.
27. Persons not to enter restricted area without permit.
28. Medical examination prior to entry into restricted area.
29. Applicant for permit to enter restricted area to furnish information.
30. Permit to enter restricted area to be valid only for period sanctioned and purpose stated.
31. New permit required to extend period or alter purpose allowed by former permit.
MISCELLANEOUS.
33. Improper dealings with documents.
34. Documents to be produced on demand.
36. Seizure and forfeiture of vessels, etc.
38. Variation and substitution of forms.
First Schedule Notice.
Second Schedule Infected area residents pass.
Third Schedule Infected area nonresidents pass.
Fourth Schedule Restricted area entry permit.
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SLEEPING SICKNESS ACT.
Commencement: 15 April, 1929.
An Act to enable measures to be taken for the prevention, arrest and suppression of sleeping sickness.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) "administrative officer" includes, for the purposes of sections 5, 6 and 18 to 22, a sleeping sickness inspector and a chief to whom the administrative officer has delegated his or her powers subject to such restrictions as the administrative officer may have imposed;
(b) "cattle" includes sheep and goats and the young of cattle, sheep and goats;
(c) "document" means any certificate, pass or permit issued under this Act or under any rules made under this Act;
(d) "examining officer" means any medical officer appointed by the chief medical officer to carry out the duties imposed by this Act upon an examining officer and includes any person whom that medical officer authorises to carry out any such duties;
(e) "glossina" means any species of tsetse fly;
(f) "invalid document" is a document which under this Act or any rules made under this Act is cancelled, or which is no longer required to be retained;
(g) "post of examination" means any place appointed by the chief medical officer to be a post of examination for an infected area or restricted area;
(h) "road" includes any path, track or route over any line of land;
(i) "sleeping sickness" means any of the forms of human trypanosomiasis;
(j) "vessel" means any kind of vessel howsoever propelled used in navigation.
2. Compulsory examination of person infected or suspected to be infected with sleeping sickness.
Any examining officer may require any person whom he or she knows or suspects to be infected with sleeping sickness to submit himself or herself for examination at such time and place as the examining officer may prescribe, and any person who on being so required refuses or neglects to be so examined commits an offence.
3. Compulsory treatment of persons infected with sleeping sickness.
Any medical officer who finds any person to be infected with sleeping sickness may require that person to submit himself or herself for treatment at such time and place as the medical officer may prescribe, and any person who on being so required refuses so to submit himself or herself or to continue so to submit himself or herself commits an offence.
SLEEPING SICKNESS AREAS.
4. Declaration of sleeping sickness area.
When the Minister is satisfied that sleeping sickness is likely to break out or to be found in any part of Uganda, he or she may, by statutory order, define such part and declare it to be a sleeping sickness area and may assign to that sleeping sickness area any designation which may seem fit to the Minister.
5. Persons resident in sleeping sickness area to furnish personal particulars.
(1) Any administrative officer may require any person resident in a sleeping sickness area to furnish him or her with such personal particulars as the Minister from time to time may specify by statutory order; except that the Minister may by statutory instrument exempt all or any of the residents or any class of residents in any sleeping sickness area or in any defined portion of any sleeping sickness area from the provisions of this subsection.
(2) Any person who refuses or omits without reasonable excuse to furnish any such particulars as he or she may be required to furnish or makes any statement concerning such particulars which he or she knows to be false commits an offence.
6. Certificate of particulars furnished.
Any person who has furnished the particulars required by section 5 shall, except where provided otherwise by section 13, be given by the administrative officer a certificate in such form as the Minister may by statutory order from time to time prescribe, and the certificate shall be carried at all times when the person to whom it has been issued is within a sleeping sickness area.
7. Owner or occupier of land required to take measures against outbreak or spread of sleeping sickness.
(1) Whenever any district commissioner is informed in writing by the chief medical officer or any medical officer authorised in that behalf by the chief medical officer that there exists on any land within the limits of his or her district or area situated within a sleeping sickness area a condition of things conducive to an outbreak of or the spread of sleeping sickness, he or she may serve or cause to be served a notice on the owner or occupier requiring him or her in order to remedy that condition to take such measures as the chief medical officer or the authorised medical officer may prescribe in the notice.
(2) The form of the notice under subsection (1) shall be that set out in the First Schedule to this Act.
(3) If the owner or occupier upon whom any notice authorised by subsection (1) is served refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to carry out any of the measures prescribed in the notice, he or she commits an offence, and the district commissioner may enter or authorise
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